Edmund Connolly

Edmund Connolly (baritone) studied music at Robinson College, Cambridge, spent a year as a lay clerk at St John's College, Cambridge and two years on the Post Diploma Vocal Training course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he worked with coaches including Iain Burnside, Paul Hamburger and Sarah Walker, gaining both a Postgraduate Diploma and an MMus. He continues to study with David Pollard. Since 2004 he has been a music professor at the GSMD.

His operatic roles include: title role Eugene Onegin with the Birmingham Chamber Orchestra; Dancairo/Morales Carmen for Opera Brava; title role Don Giovanni and Danilo Die Lustige Witwe for Pavilion Opera; Guglielmo (cover) for Opera UK; Valentin (cover) and Wagner Faust and Dr Caius Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) for Opera South; Silvio ( I Pagliacci ) for English Pocket Opera; Forester (cover) and Harasta Cunning Little Vixen , Starveling Midsummer Night's Dream and Papageno (cover) Magic Flute all for British Youth Opera.

Edmund is also in demand as a concert singer, and his experience embraces most major oratorio, including Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat , Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle, and Mendelssohn's Elijah. He has also performed Schubert's Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe, as well as English and French song in recitals around England. He was a Semi-Finalist in the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and winner of the 2003 Thames Valley Young Musicians' Platform, for young singers.

Future plans include Guglielmo ( Cosi ) in concerts at the Bloomsbury Theatre with Opera UK in April, and this summer Edmund will join the Glyndebourne Chorus for the 2006 Festival.